. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/268 
29 April 2009  
 (09-2088) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or auth ority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :   
European Commission 
EC-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  ec-tbt@ec.europa.eu Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/
  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Circulators. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation implementing Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the 
Council with regard to ecodesign requirements  for glandless standa lone circulators and 
glandless circulators inte grated in products  (12 pages, in English).  
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulation sets minimum energy 
performance requirements for circulators, as ther e is a cost-effective potential to limit their 
energy consumption. In accordance with Di rective 2005/32/EC, products  not meeting these 
minimum requirements will not be  allowed to be placed on the EU market in the future. The 
draft Regulation is based on the findings of  a technical, environmental and economic study 
which has been carried out w ith stakeholders from around the world. This draft Commission 
Regulation will repeal Directive 96/57/EC of th e European Parliament and of the Council of 
3 September 1996 on energy effici ency requirements fo r glandless standal one circulators and 
glandless circulators in tegrated in products.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Fight against climate change, increase of energy efficiency in the EU.  
8. Relevant documents:   Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council 
of 6 July 2005 establishing a framework for th e setting of ecodesign re quirements for energy-
using products, Offici al Journal L 191, 22 July 2005 P. 0029 – 0058
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Le xUriServ/LexUriServ.do?ur i=OJ:L:2005:191:0029:0058:EN:PDF   G/TBT/N/EEC/268 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    July 2009 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU. The first requirements would be applicable from January 2013. 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
European Commission EC-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  ec-tbt@ec.europa.eu The text is available on the EC-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/ 
  
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